Jamie Bell

Jamie Bell (born Andrew James Matfin Bell; 14 March 1986) is an English actor and musician. He is perhaps best known for playing the title character in the film Billy Elliot (2000), for which he won the 2001 BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Jamie Bell is a member of The Go! Team. Jamie Bell was born in Billingham, England, where he grew up with his mother, Eileen, and older sister Kathryn. His father, John Bell, a toolmaker, left before Bell was born. Bell began his involvement with dance after he accompanied his sister to her ballet lessons. He was a pupil at Northfield School, then the Stagecoach Theatre Arts school. He was a member of the National Youth Music Theatre. In 1999, he was chosen from a field of over 2000 boys for the role of Billy Elliot, an 11-year-old boy who dismays his working-class widowed father and older brother by taking up ballet.